Editions Durand — The Impressionist Imprint

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Editions Durand.

The publishing house of the French Impressionist canon. Founded in 1869 in Paris by Auguste Durand and Louis Schönewerk, Durand is the editorial home of Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Roussel, Poulenc and Messiaen. Now part of Universal Music Publishing as Durand-Salabert-Eschig.

Founded
1869
City
Paris, FR
Tradition
French Impressionist
Catalogue
15 departments
The Durand Catalogue

Durand was the editorial home of an entire movement — first edition contracts with Debussy (every published piano work), Ravel (the complete piano output), Saint-Saëns (the symphonies, the concertos), Fauré (the songs, the chamber works) made Durand the publishing identity of French Impressionism. The catalogue extended through Roussel, Poulenc, Messiaen and a deep canon of French art song, opera, orchestral and chamber music.

Below: the Durand departmental catalogue. Composer-first for the major French voices, then format. The Salabert and Eschig catalogues — both absorbed into Durand-Salabert-Eschig under Universal Music Publishing — extend the imprint through 20th-century French and Spanish modernism (Falla, Albéniz, Granados, Milhaud, Honegger).

Catalogue · 15 Departments

The Editions Durand shelf.

— French Impressionism · Paris since 1869 —

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